Talk:88Kasyo Junrei

The name does not mean 88 Pilgrimage Site..

It’s name is 八十八ヶ所巡礼 ... The Rōmaji form of the band’s name is more like: 88keKashyomJunrei or maybe HachiTohachichi (88 plus some in latin characters). The 88 Pilgrimage Site is: 八十八所巡礼 .. Playing tricks with grammar is a typical phenomena to hide things in open view in Japanese society/culture. Should be restated as “in the vein of” or “is similar in sound to pronouncing the”. It is all due to the “ヶ” (Small Ke) inserted amongst the name.. As this band is a subgenre of Visual Kei - This may be a clue to separate the band’s name from the Shikoku Pilgrimage directly.. Due to how the “Small Ke” character is used to change pronounciation by extending a consonant sound (typically), I am not 100% sure of this, as I am not familiar with the band or it’s history. 46.233.112.164 (talk) 12:33, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

"Hachi-jū Hachi Kasho Junrei" is the correct romanization of the band's name, because "ヶ所" is read as "kasho", even with the "small ke". There are other variations of this word (個所, か所, カ所) and all of them are read as "kasho", meaning "place" or "point". The "small ke" itself is an abbreviation of the character 箇, which is always read as "ka". So, this is not "playing tricks with grammar", this is just one of the options of how the word can be written. And while the band is close to visual kei in some elements, they're not a part of it. Now, in Japanese, Shikoku Pilgrimage is written as 四国八十八箇所 or 四国八十八ヶ所, and the act of pilgrimage is called "四国巡礼" (Shikoku junrei). So the wording "the name is reminiscent of the Shikoku pilgrimage" is already sufficient, in my opinion. The vocalist is also a Shikoku native and makes references to Buddhism in their lyrics quite often, so the name is most likely still a reference to the pilgrimage itself. --Devoidlynch (talk) 15:31, 24 February 2020 (UTC)